sheeplike

1 The clouds lost their sheeplike look again; they became more massive; they took on more substance and spine, more manliness, as it were; and they arranged themselves in distinct lines.

2 And little wonder, poor man, and he daft, not being able to speak, but only to bleat sheeplike, and fallen upon by robbers on the king's roads, and in broad daylight.

3 Any people have a right to their own cultural inheritance, though sheeplike makers of textbooks and sheeplike pedagogues of American literature have until recently, either wilfully or ignorantly, denied that right to the Southwest.

4 “The barriers—­the barriers!” came in sheeplike echo from the crowd.

5 But Mr. Johnson proceeded to tell him exactly that, while characterizing it oh-so-deferentially as a “faint, sheeplike” dissent.

6 It was no matter that he later claimed that he had meant simply that they reminded him of sheep, or that there was something fluffy and sheeplike about them.

7 It is because to be fashionable is for you to be normal, at least, that we tolerate your sheeplike marches and counter-marches across the plain of society.

8 If you break down the typical corporate or institutional recruiting process, you see that in many ways our traditional recruiting systems reward compliance and docility, which is to say sheeplike behavior.

9 It's time for a sure-handed, charismatic commander to lull us into sheeplike complacency once again.

10 This is why the masses of people are such sheeplike creatures, never originating an idea of their own, nor using their own powers of mental activity.

11 The other eye, sheeplike in its mildness, gave the most startling appearance to the beast, which but for that single timid orb was the most fearsome thing that one could imagine.

12 The cancer of corruption perpetuated by Mr. Trump’s dazzling dishonesty has infected not only his campaign but also the Republican Party, which falls in line, sheeplike, to defend his every lie.

13 The undersea equivalent of a shepherd, tending an amusing flock of sheeplike fish, Luca has a natural curiosity that is piqued by his mother’s warnings about the dangers that await on dry land.

14 For all the unprecedented scale and diversity of the massive number of candidates vying for presidential nomination of the Democratic party, they can be sheeplike in their herd behavior.

15 The sheeplike docility of our public is apparent in numberless ways; in none, however, more strikingly than in their choice of amusements. 

16 It resembled the face of a sheep, and the voice, too, had a sheeplike quality.

17 What women’s acuteness really respects are the inept “ideas” and the sheeplike impulses by which our actions and opinions are determined in matters of real importance. 

18 Mr. Hurley complained that students had become too sheeplike and were treating the area as if it were a mandatory free speech zone.

19 The Pine caterpillar is even more sheeplike, not from foolishness, but from necessity: where the first goes all the others go, in a regular string, with not an empty space between them.

20 He followed me from morning until night, with the fidelity of a lamb, and with its sheeplike stupidity.

1 温顺的

pigeon-livered toward plastic gentle compliant manageable tame meek peaceable tractable

2 驯良的

pack obedient docile ductile tractable biddable

3 怯懦的

un-hero faint coward craven recreant dastard white-livered cowish cowardly niddering nidering pale hearted

4 怯懦

un-hero faint coward craven recreant dastard white-livered cowish cowardly skulk niddering nidering weakness cowardice pusillanimity cowardliness poltroonery recreance milksopism pale hearted

5 温顺

pigeon-livered toward plastic gentle compliant manageable tame meek peaceable tractable docility milkiness